# teg
## English
### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “seems unlikely to have been first used for a woman and later for a ewe and also have a link to a Swedish word for a ewe”
First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛɡ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛɡ

### Noun

teg (plural tegs)
* (UK, dialectal, dated) A sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn.
    Synonym: (UK, regional, archaic) pug
** 1573, Priory of Hexham:One Stringor, that brought a tegg from Wresill.
* (UK, dialect, dated) A doe in its second year.

### Further reading

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Teg”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* GTE, Get, TGE, get

## Cornish
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

#### Numeral

teg
* Hard mutation of deg.
* Mixed mutation of deg.

### Etymology 2

From the same source as Welsh teg (“fair, pretty”).

#### Adjective

teg
* pretty, attractive

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰeː/
* Rhymes: -eː
* Homophone: te

### Pronoun

teg sg
* accusative singular of tú (“you”)

#### Synonyms

* tjeg (dialectal)

#### Derived terms

* eg elski teg (“I love you”)

## Green Hmong
### Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese tay ("hand" or "arm").

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /te˧˩̤/

### Noun

teg
* hand; paw

## Hupdë
### Noun

teg
* tree

### References

* Barbara J. Moore, Gail L. Franklin (1979) Mary L. Daniel, transl., Breves notícias da língua maku-hupda (in Hupdë), Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 11

## Livonian
### Pronoun

teg
* nominative plural of sinā

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

tèg
* (non-standard since 1938) imperative of tegja

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʲeɣ/

### Noun

teg n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige)
* Alternative form of tech

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tęgъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /têːɡ/

### Noun

tȇg m (Cyrillic spelling те̑г)
* weight (weightlifting)
* weight (block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object)

#### Synonyms

* (Croatia) úteg

## Slavomolisano
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /têːɡ/

### Noun

teg m
* work, employment
** 2010, Rino John Gliosca, Bonifacio en Amérique:Kada biša mblad, je vaza put e si ga poša Lamèrika. Aje-ka maša po jiška teg, ka teg vude ga ne biša ga.When he was young, he set out and went to America. Because he had to look for work, as there was no work here.

#### Declension
### References

* Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /teːɡ/
* Rhymes: -eːɡ

### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish tegher, from Old Norse teigr.

#### Noun

teg c
* a small farm field, a part of a larger field

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

teg
* past indicative of tiga

### Anagrams

* get

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh teg, from Proto-Brythonic *teg; GPC does not reconstruct a proto-form, but it would be Proto-Celtic *tekos, which McManus identifies as also found in Old Irish étig (“ugly”). Cognate with Cornish teg and Breton tek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /teːɡ/
* Rhymes: -eːɡ

### Adjective

teg (feminine singular teg, plural teg, equative teced, comparative tecach, superlative tecaf)
* (archaic) fair, pretty
* fair, just
* impartial, unbiased

#### Antonyms

* annheg
* tueddol

#### Derived terms

* chwarae teg (“fair play”)
* gwynt teg ar ei ôl (“good riddance”)
* tegeirian (“orchid”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ McManus, Damian (1991) A Guide to Ogam (Maynooth monographs), An Sagart, →ISBN, page 179

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “teg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies